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In the third year of Xuanwu, Luzon Fuzhou, that is, the Manila region of later generations.

A sudden rainstorm has finally kicked off the annual troublesome rainy season. About a month earlier, the large-scale rice harvest had just ended.

Although this place is not cold at all, and the temperature is suitable for year-round planting, both the immigrants from Lingnan and the local aborigines are accustomed to planting rice only in the rainy and dry seasons.

Luzon is located in the South Sea, and its typical tropical climate is divided into rain and dry seasons. Rainfall generally begins at the end of April and ends at the end of September. The dry season runs from October to April.

There are more than 700 Lingnan immigrants in Fuzhou, with a population of more than 4,000, and about 1,000 land and water garrisons, in addition to tens of thousands of local aborigines who are attached to the city.

They are the cattle and horses of the immigrants. For those natives who are not yet civilized and are still in the ignorant tribal clan class, knives and guns are always the most convincing thing.

The Song army that entered the South Seas did not aim at the country of Ma Yi from the beginning, don't look at the fact that many strategy games in later generations used "Ma Yi" to represent the entire "Luzon Kingdom", but that was really too much to promote Ma Yi. The location of the latter was probably in the later Dulo Island, that is, the southern part of Luzon, and it was only a backward large alliance of village communities.

Just because the terrain of Durak Island is gentle and the land is fertile, which is suitable for the population to thrive. Handicrafts such as salt making, winemaking, and weaving are also well developed. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, he sailed to Guangzhou and had direct trade with the Central Plains. As a result, it became a trading center and commodity distribution center in central Luzon, and it was quite close to the trade with the nearby islands. In a sense, it has become a representative of the civilized region of Luzon! But this does not mean that Ma Yiguo has really walked out of Duluo Island.

In fact, in the Luzon region, there is no longer a 'sphere of domination' at all.

Song Jun, who set foot on the island, looked down condescendingly at the many natives on the island with a lofty attitude of 'educating sentient beings'. Any resistance was wiped out with swords and guns. The gap between them who are fully armed and the local natives who are still in the tribal clan period is the difference between heaven and earth, and the natives are simply unable to resist!

For the immigrants and garrisons on the island, their worst enemies are not the local rebellious natives at all, but the mosquitoes, flies and poisonous insects here, but the natural environment here.

Since Jingkang set foot here for three years, many immigrants and soldiers have died of illness every year, and the probability in the first year is more than 10%!

Even at the beginning of his involvement in the South Seas, Zhao Gou had already ordered all the people and soldiers not to drink raw water and to maintain hygiene, but the soldiers and civilians who died of illness still emerged in an endless stream.

The good news is that this rate is declining.

And then there is the plague-ridden badland, as long as someone sets foot in it, there will be good changes slowly.

For example, in the Qin and Han dynasties, and in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the first sense given to the people of the Central Plains (northerners) was a ghost place with miasma and dampness, treacherous mountains and rivers, and poisonous insects.

But now?

Even though the south has not yet experienced the great development of the Southern Song Dynasty, not many people immediately think of miasma, poisonous weeds, pythons, diseases and death when they mention it.

The biggest reason for that is the large population. The epidemic is closely related to the development of land. When large areas of forest are developed into fertile fields connecting towns, villages and villages, the number of mosquitoes and poisonous insects will be greatly reduced, and the number of epidemics will also be reduced. The south of the Yangtze River is a clear example.

No matter what people in this era think, in Zhao Gou's eyes, the so-called miasma is a vicious infectious disease such as dysentery and cholera. The warm and humid areas of the tropics and subtropics are the breeding grounds for mosquitoes, and mosquito bites cannot be prevented, and the disease spreads more rapidly. In the eyes of the people of this era, this is a miasma breeding. But in Zhao Gou's view, in fact, the sanitary conditions are insufficient.

As long as the treatment is effective and the idea of hygiene and safety, especially in food and water, it can greatly reduce the breeding and spread of diseases.

However, this point is difficult to implement in the army, let alone in the common people.

The only consolation in Fuzhou is that with the continuous development of the surrounding areas, their annual mortality rate is gradually declining in the past three years, and their living environment has improved significantly.

Otherwise, not to mention that the immigrants are going to make a fuss, even the garrison will be dissatisfied.

The mortality rate in the first year is more than ten percent, good guys, more than the dead soldiers on the battlefield, who can withstand this?

Gossip skipped.

The third year of Xuanwu was the year when Zhao Song turned from the outside to the inside, and after eliminating the Jurchens, the external threat of Zhao Song had been reduced to the extreme, and the internal strength was consolidated and enough to be expanded again as soon as possible, which became Zhao Songxin's outline of governance.

So Nanyang was naturally proposed, and Luzon, whose natural environment is very good and has made new discoveries in copper exploration, has become one of the centers of gravity.

First there would be a large number of immigrants, and then some troops, because the imperial court would take full control of Luzon as soon as possible.

As a city at the southern tip of Luzon Island, Fuzhou seems to be of little significance at first glance, although its northern part is connected to the central plain of the island, but in fact, the city of Xinjin Prefecture in the north of Fuzhou has a greater geographical advantage over the central plain.

Just by looking at the name, you can know that the real center of the Song Dynasty was not Fuzhou, but Xinjin Mansion. It was later known as Lingayan Bay, which was now named Xinjin Bay by the Song Army.

Its distance from the mainland is closer than that of Fuzhou, and after landing in Xinjin, it is the southern tip of the central Great Plain as soon as it goes out, and its geographical advantages are far superior to Fuzhou.

Unless the brains of the ministers of civil and military affairs in the court are all broken, they will abandon Xinjin Mansion and use Fuzhou.

Just like Dingzhou, which was set up for the northern plains, how to grasp the large plains in the north of Luzon as soon as possible, Dingzhou City is the best bridgehead, not Xinjin Province, which is separated from the northern plains, and Fuzhou City, which is far away from the southern tip of the island.

To control the whole of Luzon as quickly as possible, the first thing to do is along Fuzhou Bay in the south, and the great plain sandwiched between Fuzhou Bay and Xinjin Bay, as well as a large plain in the north. Then there is the strategy for the mountainous and hilly areas.

The reason why Fuzhou, which has already leveled the coastal area of Fuzhou Bay, has become a strategic center of gravity of the army and has taken on important responsibilities is that its main role is not aimed at the main island of Luzon, but the indigenous forces of many small islands such as Mayi in the south of the island.

It can be said that Fuzhou is more than a barrier, a barrier to all external threats. It is a hand stretched out by the Song army, and when Luzon is settled, it will be time for the indigenous forces on the islands such as Mayi to clean up.